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Ancient History

The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the
ancient world and beyond. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct
a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic
and Classical Greek world.

The Society of Ancient Military Historians is an organization dedicated to the promotion
of the study of warfare in the Ancient World. Members sponsor and contribute to the
publication of our newsletter, Res Militares. Our leadership works with and within
the American Philological Association to arrange contact between our members and within
the larger academic community.

United States History: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929–1941

The New Deal Network is an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Without question it is the most site on the subject of the Great Depression and the
New Deal. It is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the
Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University. This
is a portal or "Meta" site to many aspects of the Great Depression and New Deal.

Primary resources abound in the "New Deal Document Library." Browse the collection
by subject, date, author, or publisher. Perhaps more interesting to students is the
photo gallery, well organized by subject, including the arts, construction, social
programs, and federal agencies. Teachers will find lesson plans and information to
help them discover local and state New Deal resources. The Student Showcase includes
classroom-created web sites that document local history, such as Rocky Gap High School's
Bland County (VA) History Archives, which includes oral histories. Click on Subjects
and learn about the town's farming, churches, logging, and schools through poignant
black-and-white photographs and brief text.

The New Deal Network also presents featured topics, like the Great Depression and
the Arts, selections from the WPA Slave Narratives project, and more.

This companion to PBS's "American Experience" program of the same name discusses the
Great Depression phenomenon where more than 250,000 teenagers became hobos, living
on the rails. The site includes a Depression time line, a map of the routes, and a
teacher's guide. The most captivating section is "Tales from the Rails," with seven
official and numerous visitor-submitted stories by former teen hobos. Students will
be drawn in by these stories that put a personal spin on what are usually just dry
facts. "Striking a Chord" includes an essay on the hobo's musical heritage, with four
songs that students can listen to. "Added Obstacles" is an essay on the unique difficulties
encountered by African American hobos.

California and U.S. Western History

Public History is an exciting interdisciplinary field that embraces archeology, archives,
oral history, education, museums, exhibits, and community planning and preservation.
This is history that is seen, heard, read, and interpreted by a popular audience.
We expand upon the methods of academic history by emphasizing non-traditional evidence
and presentation formats, reframing questions, and in the process create a distinctive
historical practice. Research in public libraries, civic archives, and community archives
is part of it, as is the preservation of buildings, artifacts, historic places and
cultural landscapes. Since Public History education and historic interpretation extends
beyond the classroom, historians employ accessible formats such as living history,
digital media, documentary film and radio to reach diverse publics.

The Online Archive of California provides a guide to California History research materials
and other holdings of many important California libraries. It does not usually provide
digitized sources, but it often provides very detailed descriptions of archival collections.

At a time when the study of California and local history is missing from most academic
settings, the California History Center (CHC) and California History Center Foundation
(CHCF) provide both a holistic approach to the subject for the Foothill/De Anza Community
College District and a focal point for the public interested in California’s rich
regional history.

As the state's official historical society, we hold extensive materials about California's
rich history. Our Website is still young, but growing and it primarily provides "content"
for researchers. We invite you to visit our headquarters at 678 Mission Street in
the South of Market/Yerba Buena Gardens area of San Francisco.

The Society of Ancient Military Historians is an organization dedicated to the promotion
of the study of warfare in the Ancient World. Members sponsor and contribute to the
publication of our newsletter, Res Militares. Our leadership works with and within
the American Philological Association to arrange contact between our members and within
the larger academic community.

Religious History

Science and Technology

Contains information on the history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
as well as, past and present space programs. This site also is linked to the NASA.gov
web site which contains up to the minute information on current missions.